Comments on: OWC Aura 1TB PCIe SSD Review (mid-2013 & Later) – The Wait Is Over

By: ridgeguy

ridgeguy — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 02:19:00 +0000

This review should be updated to note that the OWC Aura SSD product line does not allow updating some Apple laptops to High Sierra without doing a one-time reinstallation of the original OEM Apple SSD. See the blog at OWC’s site for details. OWC has not as yet updated their Aura Pro product description, which still says “Supported on all macOS versions, including macOS 10.13 High Sierra.”.

By: foljs

foljs — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:09:00 +0000

In reply to Les@TheSSDReview.

Whether it’s new or old technology is irrelevant.

The question, as the parent commenter put it, is whether this makes it doubly likely for the drive to go crap itself.

> In fact, it is the main drive of my MBA right now so I guess that speaks volumes in itself.

No, it doesn’t say anything to answer the question really.

A drive with twice the error rate or half the self life as another can very well be the main drive to a laptop.

That doesn’t change its shortcomings.

Not does the fact that we should backup our stuff anyway changes the fact that a drive that is more likely to fail than another is still problematic.

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:02:00 +0000

In reply to Humbert Medeiros. This was released after our report.

By: Humbert Medeiros

Humbert Medeiros — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:48:00 +0000

You mentioned that Boot Camp is not supported for these drives yet OWC shows a Dual Boot Enabler for Apple Boot Camp on there site. Any explanation to this? I really need to have a dual boot system on my Mac.

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Sun, 01 May 2016 16:20:00 +0000

In reply to LiveJoX.

We speak as if a RAID volume is something new…. lol. I wouldn’t hesitate to run any system with this, keeping in mind the same safeguarding of data as should be considered for any system.

In fact, it is the main drive of my MBA right now so I guess that speaks volumes in itself.